180 more: extraordinary poems for every day

First hour / Sharon Olds

The alien / Greg Delanty

Muzak / Kevin Young

The floating rib / Lucia Perillo

To the dust of the road / W.S. Merwin

Prayer in my boot / Naomi Shihab Nye

To my twenties / Kenneth Koch

Hurdles / Katia Kapovich

I need to be more French. Or Japanese / Beth Ann Fennelly

Waiting for my clothes / Leanne O'Sullivan

Oh, what a red sweater / Alan Michael Parker

Boulevard du Montparnasse / Mary Jo Salter

To stammering / Kenneth Koch

Trick pear / Suzanne Cleary

The albatross / Kate Bass

The busses / Frederick Morgan

Bedecked / Victoria Redel

Dinner out / Christopher Howell

Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch

Soccer moms / Paul Muldoon

What I did / Jim Daniels

What I want / George Bilgere

What I do / Douglas Goetsch

Late Valentine, with daisies / Kevin Stein

Tariff / Michelle Boisseau

Passport: a manifesto / Carol Muske-Dukes

Interchanges / Yannis Ritsos

Machines / Michael Donaghy

Please come late / Hugo Williams

Romanticism / Robert Wrigley

In praise of my young husband / Cathleen Calbert

The little flowers / W.S. Di Piero

Arrival / Michael Longley

The foot thing / Jane Routh

The hammock / Cecilia Woloch

Heart's itch / Rebecca Wee

Mrs. Darwin / Carol Ann Duffy.

The Russian greatcoat / Theodore Deppe

Samurai / Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Eleven thousand and one / Darcie Dennigan

Instinct / C.K. Williams

"Even ornaments of speech are forms of deceit" / Ron Koertge

Dorie off to Atlanta / Mark Halliday

Girls, look out for Todd Bernstein / Jason Bredle

Even after / Joyce Sutphen

Before the sickness is official / J. Allyn Rosser

Crescendo / Leanne O'Sullivan

Wedding ring / Lynne McMahon

Acceptance speech / Lynn Powell

The clasp / Sharon Olds

Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood

In California / Margaret Levine

Sounds of the day / Norman MacCaig

Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz

A monorhyme for the shower / Dick Davis

A jacquard shawl / Ted Kooser

By daylight / Elizabeth Macklin

I am going to start living like a mystic / Edward Hirsch

National cold storage company / Harvey Shapiro

Painting a room / Katia Kapovich.

Birthday poem / Erin Murphy

The invitations overhead / Stephen Dobyns

Understudy / Daniel Lusk

Popular mechanics / Edward Nobles

By her own hand / Alice Fulton

Hate poem / Julie Sheehan

Do you love me? / Robert Wrigley

He told her he loved her / Stephen Dobyns

From Woody's restaurant, Middlebury / Greg Delanty

An apology / F.J. Bergman

What kind of fool am I? / Don Mckay

Why it often rains in the movies / Lawrence Raab

Fight / Laurel Blossom

Slowly / Donna Masini

On parting / Cate Marvin

Valentine / Carol Ann Duffy

From blossoms / Li-Young Lee

Onions / William Matthews

Reading Hemingway / James Cummins

Grapefruit / Gerald Stern

Mishima on a plate / Joey Roth

Olive oil / Paul Suntup

Rest on the flight into Egypt / Debora Greger

Buddha's dogs / Susan Browne

The long meadow / Vijay Seshadri

The dogs in Dutch paintings / David Graham

October cats / Rachel Hadas

A display of mackerel / Mark Doty

The corgis of Queen Elizabeth / Diane Wald

Salt lick / Mary Sarton

Aanabhrandhanmar means "mad about elephants" / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The fox in the National Museum of Wales / Robert Minhinnick.

Praise / Laurie Lamon

A cowardice of husbands / David Kirby

Amnesty / Carl Dennis

Stephen Duck and Edward Chicken / George Green

Ibid at the book party / Christina Daub

Reading: winter / C.K. Williams

Lives of the poets / Louis Simpson

Blurbs / Julianna Baggott

Long afternoons / Adam Zagajewski

Shakespearean sonnet / R.S. Gwynn

Writing on not writing / Jack Myers

The booksigning / James Tate

Publication date / Franz Wright

The poetry reading last night in the Royal Hibernian Hotel / Paul Durcan

Keats / Christopher Howell

Anagrammer / Peter Pereira

Warrant / Charles Bernstein

Chapter one / Mark Aiello

Denial / David Lehman

The poet / Tom Wayman

What is written / John Ashbery

Famous / Naomie Shihab Nye

The arm / Stephen Dunn

Appeal to the grammarians / Paul Violi

Out there / Mark Perlberg

Illumination / Anthony Hecht

Highway 12, just east of paradise, Idaho / Robert Wrigley

Man-made / Kirsten Kaschock

Mr. Dithers explains it all to you / David Kirby

Snowbanks north of the house / Robert Bly

At the cottage of Messer Violi / Paul Violi.

Jeep cherokee / Bruce A. Jacobs

Bad day / Kay Ryan

The cove / Dck Allen

La brea / Glyn Maxwell

A shadow of a nest / Gary Margolis

In the rear-view mirror / Robert Shaw

Two disappeared into a house / Yehuda Amichai

Yea, though I walk / Virginia Hamilton Adair

The current / Mark Halliday

I said yes but I meant no / Dean Young

Nux / Tom Clark

Iron train / Adam Zagajewski

Long paces / Timothy Steele

Passenger pigeons / Robert Morgan

A toast to the Baltimore Oriole / Don McKay

Windowgrave / Eamon Grennan

Knowledge / Philip Memmer

Charlie Chan wins again / Ron Padgett

Outside the mainway market / Catherine Doty

Leaving Tralee / Ben Howard

Local 32B / Michael Donaghy

Chicken / Kim Addonizio

Solitude / Kerry Hardie

To Roanoke with Johnny Cash / Bob Hicok

Air Larry / Joseph Harrison

Thomas Eakins: A dream of powers / Philip Dacey

Poem / Bill Knott

Nothing in that drawer / Ron Padgett.

Leaving the island / Linda Pastan

Takeoff / Timothy Steele

You can change your life through psychic power / James Tate

At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / William Stafford

Current / Stuart Dybek

Off-track betting / Ron Koertge

Unflushed urinals / Donald Justice

Extinguishable / Bill Knott

If you don't / Diane Thiel

To help the monkey cross the river, / Thomas Lux

Where did I leave off? / Virginia Hamilton Adair

Happiness / Jane Kenyon

Mirrors at 4 A.M. / Charles Simic

In the coffee house / Tony Towle

Why I don't take naps in the afternoon / Dan Gerber

A traversing / Pattiann Rogers

Requiem / Abigail Gramig

Bohemian blues / Philip Nikolayev

Retro creation / Aidan Rooney-Cespedes

The fate / Bill Knott

Reading the obituary page / Linda Pastan

Waking late / Robin Robertson

The first photograph of Hitler / Wislawa Szymborska

The soldiers / Gregory Djanikian

Timely enumerations concerning Sri Lanka / Oliver Rice

The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska

Request / Lawrence Raab.